Improvement in sled-runner attachments for vehicles



' P. KUEMPEL. Sled-Runner Attachment for Vehicles.

No. 198,748. Patnted Jan. 1,1878

Witnesses: Inventor: I

UNITED STATESPATENT .QFFICE FREDERIG KUEMPEL, ()FBUFFALO, new YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLED-RUNNER ATTACHMENTS FO'R VEHICLES.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,748, dated January 1, 1878; application filed i December 13, 1 877.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, FREDERIC KUEMPEL,

, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain-new and useful Improvements on a Sled-Runner Attachment for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with themcompanying sheetof drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains' tomake and use the same.

- This invention has special reference to a sled-runner attachment to wheeled vehicles;

tached.

Like letters of reference indicate similar partsin both figures:

A is a vehicle'wheel of any of the wellknown or special constructions, to which is removably attached the sled-runner B. This sled-runner consists of the metallic runner G and two side walls orguards, B, the latter being secured "to the former in any suitable manner, and placed a sufficient distance apart to admit the said wheel A between them.

The walls B may be made of wood or metal, and of any desired configuration, and may be a skeletonframe-work, so long as they reach up on both sidesof the wheelhigh enough to serve as a guard and prevent displacement of said runner.

D is a flap or plate, hinged to the runner O at d, and serving as a head or means for closing the box-shaped guardsB. This plate is formed with side wings D, overlapping the guards B on their rear end, to retain v them in proper position, and it is provided with oifsets E on each side, serving as a catch, to act, in conjunction with two spring-hooks, H, as a means for locking said flap to the guards B B The upper extremity of this flap is formed into a clip, F, by means of which the rear ends of A in precisely the same manner as the rear 1 U clip F H'H, as heretofore referred to, are two catchsprings, secured to the guards B with one of their extremities, and provided on their opposite ends with barbs h, overlapping the flap D at the offsets E. These springs, when lifted upward, release the flap' D, which may then be turned'down in a horizontal position, and thus serve as a track for the wheel A to run upon when being placed into or removed from the runner.

It will be readily observed that the wheel A isclamped, by means of the clips Fand G, at diametrically opposite places, and thus preventedfrom revolving.

If desired, chains may be attached to the runner O in the eye K, and these chains hitched to the vehicle in any suitable manner. not in use the sled-runners may be placed upon the vehicle.

The advantages of a sled-runner attachment I to wheeled vehicles aremanifold, inasmuch as it dispenses with the necessity of keeping both a wagon and sleigh. A wagon or other wheeled vehicle may be readily converted into such at a few moments notice, so that during winter, when sudden changes in the tempera ture of the atmosphere convert a good sleighing road within a few hours into the most unendurable thoroughfare, and render a sleighmore than useless, or vice versa, my sled-runner attachment may be readily attached to or removed from the wheels by removing the nuts and plates on the clips F and G and turn.

ing down the flaps D.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 7 Patent of the United States- The sledrunner attachment for wheeled.

vehicles, consisting essentially of the runner In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 0, having its forward. end. provided with the my invention I have hereto set my hand and clip or clamp G, the guards B, the hinged affixed my seal in the presence of two subflap D,' with the offsets E and clip or clamp scribing witnesses.

F, and the catch-springs H, the Whole con- FRED. KUEMPEL. [LL s.] structed and arranged. for attachment to a Attest:

' Wheel, substantially as and. for the use and MICHAEL J. STARK, v

purpose-specified. I v I FRANK HIRSCH. 

